Quotes by greek authors

Time is the wisest counselor of all. Pericles

Time Counselor Wisest

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. Pindar

Wisdom Self-Interest Yield Even

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. Plato

No-One Well Govern Governs Wants Teach Teaches Who Ever

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato

Great Ignorance Learning Training Evil Bad Neither All Things Misfortune Excessive Terrible Cleverness Greater Greatest Accompanied Nor Much Things

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato

Happiness Class Construction State Our Object Greatest Greatest Happiness Any Whole

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. Plato

Man Animal Nails Feet Flat Two

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato

Love No-One Return Does His Friend Who

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. Plato

Power Wish Steals He Same Little Much Less Who

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato

Men States Out Characters Human Grow

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato

Knowledge Ignorance Learning Too Much Evil Too Extreme Entire More Terrible Cleverness Greatest Accompanied Being Far Much Ill Fatal

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Plutarch

Good Enemies Endeavor Carefully Imitating Our Faulty Those Good Qualities Excel Excellent Observe Qualities Wherein Them Us Avoiding Let Us

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch

Our Indeed Ancestors Glory Thing Belongs Desirable

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Plutarch

Adversity Balance Prosperity Scale Only Weigh Friends Just

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. Saint Basil

Truth Kindness God Good Me Knowledge Grace Christ Parents Beginning Christian Our Benevolence Liberated Our Lord Spirit Through Learned Operation Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Tradition Led Error Very Which Loving Scriptures Them Holy Pagan Holy Scriptures Holy Spirit Even Jesus Jesus Christ

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. Saint Basil

God Nature Thoughts Heart Disclose Human Nature Secret Our Possess Neighbor Faculty Share Since Another His Hearts Human Common Them Might Forth Us Created Granted Who Each Bringing Treasury Speech

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Saint Basil

Good Evil Doctrine Masters Taught Teach Wholly

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon

Character Trust Oath More Put Nobility Than

There is no greater evil than anarchy. Sophocles

Evil Anarchy Greater Greater Evil Than

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles

Man Fear Word No Fear Feels Does Frighten Acting Who

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. Sophocles

Nothing Aid Those Cannot Fortune Who

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. Sophocles

Wise Man Wise Man Mind Sick Chatter Does Whose

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. Sophocles

Tears Valuable Valuable Thing Evils Possible Would Would-Be Weeping Dead Were Cure Than Gold Lamentation Then Less Thing Raise

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. Sophocles

Life Bad Throws He His Friend Who Away

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. Thucydides

Strong Weak Accept

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides

Respect Men Despise Way Those Give Court Them Naturally Who